How Mary Lou Lord's cover of "Polaroids" inspired me to leave law school

Find out why at The Weeklings, where I"ve taken part in their Power Trio series, which even has its own playlist on Spotify. I love being asked to write about topics that aren't about sex (not that I don't love and live by writing about sex, but it makes me feel especially valued to be asked to do other things). I'm at CatalystCon and prepping host the last ever In The Flesh Reading Series with an amazing lineup. You can follow the conference with the hashtag #ccon (and every panel and event has its own hashtag too!).

Carrie Brownstein on Portlandia

From the Washington Post:

"In a lot of communities, whether it's Williamsburg or Austin or Madison [Wis.] . . . you have these people that are very stifled and conflicted by their own sense of altruism," Brownstein says. "I think that's the underlying theme of the show. . . . A lot of comedies are based on people being bad. Ours is based on people trying to be good."

And while music remains her primary love, Brownstein says the show gives her an outlet that rock-and-roll can't provide.

"As much as I admire bands that can get to a place of sheer weirdness, that's just not the kind of music I make," she says. "I think 'Portlandia' definitely occupies a sphere of silliness and outlandishness that I would not be comfortable going with in music."